[MPlayer-users] Two intances of video like a mirror

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 06/04/2009 07:44 AM, Oliver Seitz wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I was wondering if is it possible to show two screens of the same video, I
>> mean, like a mirror.
>> So, I'd have "MPlayer window1" and "Mplayer window2" showing the same
>> video.
>>
>> Does anyone know if is it possible?
> 
> I can't see where the difficulty is. It took me a bit of fiddling with
> slave-mode commands to securely keep the videos in sync, but I got three
> players running in parallel without any problem.
> 
> Greets,
> Kiste

gnome-mplayer can do this quit easily...

Open two instances of gnome-mplayer and then use dbus to tell both
instances what file to open...

dbus-send  --type=signal / com.gnome.mplayer.Open
string:'/home/kdekorte/Videos/TheHunt.divx'

They should be quite close insync as well.

Kevin

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